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138 years ago · 1888
“I do not understand that it has ever been claimed that a parent should be pensioned for the death of a son who had been in the Army unless his death could be traced in some way to…”
— Grover Cleveland
124 years ago · 1902
“You cannot put a stop to or reverse the industrial tendencies of the age, but you can control and regulate them and see that they do no harm.”
— Teddy Roosevelt
107 years ago · 1919
“You know what the necessity of peace is.”
— Woodrow Wilson
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The fight to maintain confidence at the ballot box is not partisan.
The party has to all come together right now. We don’t have a lot of time.
He has to make those kinds of decisions as to how he approaches his campaign in the general.
What Abdul did last night is pull off, in a sense, the biggest upset in the history of modern politics.
This is only going to deter other scientific experts from public service.
In practice, violent settlers and the [Benjamin] Netanyahu government have proceeded to rapidly extend Israeli control over civilian populations in the region.
Settlers can use violent and deadly force with impunity against Palestinians and Americans while seizing land … and no one will face consequences.